Master Rule Updates – Special Summoning Extra Deck Monsters

Some rulings just got posted up on Twitter from people enquiring with Konami’s ruling helpdesk. We now know how Extra Deck Monsters summoned via effects will be handled!

Disclaimer: These rulings are posted by unofficial sources on Twitter by people who have enquired to Konami’s ruling helpdesk. As they are not posted officially via official sources, their accuracy cannot be determined.
(However these accounts have a record of posting legitimate rulings so these ruling updates should be credible)

Q. When using cards such as Mask Change, Ultimaya Tzolkin or Bahamut Shark to special summon Fusion, Synchro or Xyz monsters from the Extra Deck (Which do not legally summon them), can you special summon them to a Main Monster Zone? (In the situation that there are no Link Markers pointing to those Zones.)

A. In this scenario, you may not special summon the relative monsters to the Main Monster Zone.

Additional note: This would also apply to Starlight Road, Cyber-Stein and other similar cards.

Q. If my Extra Monster Zone is empty and there are no Link Markers (pointing to Zones) on my field, and I have a Number 39: Utopia on my Main Monster Zone. If I were to overlay Number S39: Utopia the Lightning over it, must I summon it to my Extra Monster Zone?

A. In this scenario, your Number S39: Utopia the Lightning must be Xyz summoned to your Extra Monster Zone.

Additional note: When ranking up your Xyz monsters, they must go to an Extra Monster Zone / Linked Main Monster Zone regardless of which zone the original Xyz monster was on.

As a player, who has played since LOB and stopped just after XYZ was released. I can safely say that these new rules are so much better. It brings back the true yugioh which is not just about sitting and watching while your opponent plays his turn for 10 minutes.

This basically returns yugioh back to the good old GX series where you always had to boost your monsters attack. I mean i play Cyber dragons, sure i can’t spam from my extra deck, but the change just allows me to keep much needed resources in hand without me having to go all in every game. In such, making the game of yugioh a bit longer and enjoyable without losing on the first turn. So i’m okay with the change.

any cards requiring 2 or more (especially more) monsters summoned from the extra deck are much less viable without some way of moving your monsters to your main zone, or using them directly from extra deck. I mean syncro tuning is out, syncro fusion, and more. Oh and my Sophia deck will never be seen again.

So glads have essentially been reduced to pre-BoL and knocked out a chance at op tier play again, also konami is for co g decks that even touch the extra to use links regardless of what there own cards say. Go figure, wish they would make a rule to help the players for once

My deck runs on Ranking Up. Thanks #Konami for fucking up your own game. I say put the Pendulum Zones on the sidelines again and turn thr “Extra Monster Zone” into a “Link Monster Zone” that way the players who have been with Yu-Gi-Oh from the VERY BEGINNING will not feel betrayed.